Editor’s Note: Encyclo has not been regularly updated since August 2014, so information posted here is likely to be out of date and may be no longer accurate. It’s best used as a snapshot of the media landscape at that point in time.

EveryBlock is a site owned by Comcast that collects and sorts local news data and hosts community conversation on a block-by-block level.

In August 2009, two months after its Knight grant expired, EveryBlock was bought by msnbc.com. The site was shut down abruptly in February 2013 by NBC, which had taken control of EveryBlock when NBC took full ownership of msnbc.com the previous year. NBC’s owner, Comcast, relaunched the site in January 2014 with a Chicago site. It added a Philadelphia site later that year.

Vox Media is an online media company that includes the sports blog network SB Nation, tech site The Verge, and the explanatory journalism site Vox. Vox Media was formally formed in 2011, but it began with the creation of SB Nation (short for SportsBlog Nation), a network of more than 300 fan-run sports blogs, many of them dedicated…

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